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The Self-Unseeing
03:11
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"The Self-Unseeing" by THOMAS HARDY
(with stanza re-ordering collage)
Here is the ancient floor,
Footworn and hollowed and thin,
Here was the former door
Where the dead feet walked in.
She sat here in her chair,
Smiling into the fire;
He who played stood there,
Bowing it higher and higher.
Childlike, I danced in a dream;
Blessings emblazoned that day;
Everything glowed with a gleam;
Yet we were looking away!
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Potions
02:51
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POTIONS
Bewitchment - Predestiny
Incantation - Augury
Enchantment - Conjury
Vitriols
Waters, oils and spirits
Minerals, salts, stones and pigments
Mercury, Lead
Amassing alchemical elements
It’s a potion for prophecy
(or Villainy)
Divination - Devilry
Superstition - Sorcery
Illusion - Induction
The power of prophecy
Vitriols
Waters, oils and spirits
Minerals, salts, stones and pigments
Mercury, Lead
Amassing alchemical elements
It’s a potion for prophecy
(or Villainy)
It’s a potion for prophecy
(Bring me your alchemy)
It’s a potion for prophecy
(Bring me your alchemy)
What will we see?
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3. |
Count Ominous
02:22
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COUNT OMINOUS
Am I the villain?
Seeking only glory
Black bile that drives the plot
Allow me to be the hero
in my own story.
Even though I’m not
So you quest for
The dark elixir
What makes a villain rot...
Apothecary,
Fairy curses
A toxic potion for blood lust
Quaff the brew,
It burns your eyes,
Release the villain from inside
Drink your allegiance to apathy!
Now the nemesis
In your story
The one that foils the plot
Apothecary,
Gremlin curses
A poison wrecking trust
Allow me to be the hero
in my own story.
Now I’ll drive the plot
I hear the war drum
of your heart
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4. |
Goblin Ballroom
03:29
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GOBLIN BALLROOM
You’ve bitten the peach
You’re trippin into a ballroom
Glowing gowns in the dark
Shrouds and masks
Specters dance
Goblins and skeletons
Waltzing to xylophones
Wizards are making out
How far does the magic roam
Wraiths watch us from the walls
Hades floor beneath us crawls
Stay asleep a chance to meet
Death for the last dance
a sense 'twere better / To fail (He calls)
a sense 'twere better / To fail (Specters dance)
a sense 'twere better / To fail
Dreams are true while they last,
and do we not live in dreams?
Stay asleep entranced to meet
Death demands
This dance of body and limb
This weight of body and limb.
This dance of body and limb
Dark is the world to thee;
thyself art the reason why,
For is He not all but thou,
that hast power to feel "I am I"?
You’ve bitten the peach ("I am I"?)
You’re trippin into a ballroom ("I am I"?)
Glowing gowns in the dark
(PEACH…)
Shrouds and masks
Specters dance
Glory about thee,
and thou fulfillest thy doom,
Making Him broken gleams
A splendor and gloom. . . (a sense 'twere better / To fail)
fulfillest thy doom, (a sense 'twere better / To fail)
(a sense 'twere better / To fail)
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5. |
Spectres Surrender
03:29
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6. |
The Triumph of Love
03:30
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THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE
The heroes gathered
The bard was singing
O’ Tales of yore
Their triumphs of love
Through life's avalanches
Whatever circumstances
Triomphe de l'amour
The triumph above
The triumph of love
Swords were flashing
Scales were falling
from this dragon's eyes
The triumph of love
Through life's avalanches
Whatever circumstances
Triomphe de l'amour
The triumph of love
Over it all!
Mettle tested
Demons bested
Our heroes won
The triumph of love
(Time for mead and rum)
Swords were flashing
Scales were falling
from this dragon's eyes
The triumph of love
Through life's avalanches
Whatever circumstances
Triomphe de l'amour
The triumph of love
Over it all!
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Death and The Poetess Boston, Massachusetts
Blake Girndt (The I Want You, AxeMunkee, With Uncle Bones) and jojo Lazar (Burlesque Poetess, Army of Toys) bringing you crypt-folk tunes & spare bones for your spare change.
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Army of Toys's last full-length record, COME BLACK MAGIC is the boudoir enchantment you need.
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by The I Want You
The I Want You's latest is a rockin' adventure, it's Blake's other major band project.
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by David Lonton-Baxter
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Once Upon A Time In Montréal
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